Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD - 4-H hosted the 41st Annual Market Animal Auction on Saturday afternoon during the Gogebic County Fair. Throughout the afternoon, 24 4-H members displayed their steers, lambs, hogs and pictures of their turkey and boilers around the Cattle Arena for over 50 audience members. This year, no poultry was allowed due to bird flu. Any 4-H members auctioning off their animal were enrolled in the 2014-15 animal market summer project. During the summer, they met every Monday night helping to...
Monday, Aug. 17 Gogebic County Human Services Agency Board, 9 a.m., Gogebic County Medical Care Facility, Wakefield. Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, Wis. 715-561-4450. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution, seniors, mothers, infants, and children, 9 a.m.-noon, 100 Mill St., Bessemer. 906-667-0283. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Iron County Historical Society, 2 p.m., museum, 303 Iron St., Hurley. Carnegie Library, 5:30 p.m., Adult...
IRONWOOD — The 2015 Homemaker of the Fair award was presented to Ashley Hampston of Ironwood at the Gogebic County Fair this past weekend. Hampston has exhibited items in the fair for many years; starting out in the County 4-H at the age of 8. She believes in supporting the fair by submitting her entries to exhibit. This year she had entries in canning and preservation, horticulture, food preparation and needlework, which are required categories; as well as, entries in the Livestock Barn. She learned to crochet and knit with her grandmother. S...
SAXON, Wis. - It was about 100 degrees hotter than typical snowmobiling weather, but that didn't stop drag racing Saturday at the Iron County Fairgrounds in Saxon. Around $1,600 was raised for breast cancer prevention in the women's pink races, which included a nasty spill by one of the racers well after the finish line. She was uninjured, however. With temperatures reaching the mid-90s, the racers and their teams struggled to keep motors that are supposed to be air-cooled running for even the...
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Rosemary M. Iacono, 86, of Ironwood, died Monday, July 13, 2015, at Aspirus Grand View Hospital in Ironwood. The former Rosemary Maksym was born Nov. 28, 1928, in Ironwood, daughter of the late Frank and Mary (Boho) Maksym, and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in 1947. She then moved to Chicago, where she worked as a waitress at the Edgewater Country Club, and married George D. Iacono in 1949. Moving to Tucson, Ariz., she worked with her husband in his optometry...
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) - Given a third straight chance to finally win a major, Jason Day promised a fight to the finish in the PGA Championship. Turns out the biggest fight was to hold back the tears. Worried that this year might turn out to be a major failure, Day never gave Jordan Spieth or anyone else a chance Sunday. He delivered a record-setting performance at Whistling Straits that brought him a major championship he started to wonder might never happen. Day was in tears before he even...
